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Tax Day Actions
Before and on Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Every year on tax day — Tuesday, April 15, this year — hundreds of individuals and groups around the country get out and demand that the financial resources of the U.S. be used for human needs, peace, and justice — not war. Protests and leafleting are held at post offices, town squares, and federal buildings.

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Tax Day in Oakland, California, 2012.

Arizona

Tucson — Money for Schools, Not Missiles! Join the Raytheon Peacemakers as we demonstrate against war and those who profit from it. Survival demands better ideas, not better weapons. April 15, Tax Day, 7–8 a.m., park off Nogales Highway, between railroad tracks and highway at the Hermans Road entrance. Signs provided, or bring your own! More info: nukeresister@igc.org or (520) 323‒8697.

California

Berkeley — Northern Calfornia War Tax Resistance and People’s Life Fund granting ceremony on the Sunday before Tax Day, April 13th at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1606 Bonita Ave. Berkeley, Calif. The program will be from 5:30–7:30, and we encourage everyone to bring a potluck dish to share. For more info: (510) 842‒6124 or nowartax@riseup.net. Everyone is welcome. Please feel free to spread the word!

Chico — Chico Peace and Justice Center sponsors a discussion about peace and taxes at the Chico Peace & Justice Center, 526 Broadway Street, on Tuesday, April 15 from noon to 1:30 p.m., followed by a protest to raise awareness about the percentage of tax dollars allocated for military spending instead of humanitarian and environmental services. The demonstration 1:30–4:30 p.m. at the downtown Chico post office. Info: (530) 893‒9078 or see the website.

Colorado

Denver — “Burlesque, & A Lively Discussion of Issues Pertaining to Taxation, the Publick Sphere, and The Pursuit of Happiness in Denver Town” with The, Esteemed Philosophe and Adventurer, Dr. Fosberry, & His Civicus Carnivale Spectacular, Wednesday, April 16, 6:00–8:00 p.m., McNichols Civic Center Building, 144 West Colfax. With booths and info on war tax resistance and other approaches to taxation. Info: Warm Cookies of the Revolution or on Facebook.

Illinois

Chicago — Chicago Area War Resisters Support Committee’s annual war tax resistance demonstration, Federal Building Plaza, April 15, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Speeches, singing, leafleting with WRL pie chart, penny poll, signs and banners. Joined by several Chicago-area peace organizations and a north side Unitarian/Univesalist group, plus video coverage by Paula Rogge for new war tax resistance film!

Indiana

Mishawaka/South Bend — The Michiana War Tax Refusers are holding a tax day vigil at our local Congresswoman’s office in conjunction with Michiana Peace and Justice Coalition and Americans for Tax Fairness. It will be at 4 p.m. on April 15 at 202 Lincolnway East Suite 101, Mishawaka. We will hold signs and pass out WRL pie chart flyers.

Iowa

Dubuque — Citizens’ Tax Moratorium. Vigil and leafleting with War Tax Boycott cards and other handouts, downtown at Federal Building, 6th and Locust on Tuesday, April 15, from 5 p.m.–7 p.m., and ongoing every Monday at Noon or 5 p.m. For more information contact john-klotz121[at]yahoo.com or (563) 583‒2586.

Maine

Distribution of leaflets on budget priorities (more for human needs, less for military) in several townsand cities in Maine on or before April 15. For more information: Larry Dansinger, Maine War Tax Resistance Resource Center, (207) 525‒7776 or rosc@psouth.net.

St. Louis — Annual Tax Day Action with Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, April 15, 11:30–1:00 p.m. at the corner of Central & Forsyth, Clayton. Help distribute “where your income taxes really go” flyers. Info: WILPF(314) 862‒5735.

New Hampshire

Portsmouth — War tax education and penny poll activity this coming Tuesday, April 15th in Market Square, Portsmouth from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. This action is planned to call attention to the unjustifiable cost of our increasingly militarized federal budget, despite the recent draw-down of our disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For questions or information on what you can bring to the event, please contact Bill Woodward, or see www.peace-action.org and join the Global Day of Action on Military Spending on April 15 (demilitarize.org/organizers-packet).

New York

Ithaca — Ithaca War Tax Resisters will be present on April 15, at the downtown Ithaca Post office, 213 Tioga St., from 3:30 to 5:30. We will be holding a 20-foot long graph of the federal budget, showing the terribly skewed military spending priorities, and we will be passing out information about where your tax dollars go. As people of conscience who are against all war, war tax resisters don’t want their federal tax dollars paying for war and killing. If you work for peace, don’t pay for war! For more information, contact Mary Loehr at (607) 277‒6932, or moongoddessmary58@yahoo.com.

New York City — NYC War Resisters League, NYC War Tax Resisters and others will gather at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15 at the Manhattan IRS office (110 W. 44th Street), then march around 5 p.m.with Rude Mechanical Orchestra to the main Post Office at 34th and 8th Avenue. Or meet us at the PO around 5:30 or 6 p.m. for vigil and leafleting. Info: nycwrl[at]att.net or call (718) 768‒7306. Co-sponsors include NYC People’s Life Fund, NYC War Tax Resisters, Peace Action New York State.

North Carolina

Asheville — Asheville area war tax resisters join with New South Network of War Resisters at Pritchard Park downtown Asheville 3 to 5 p.m. April 15 with banners, flyers and information on Area war profiteers. Info: newsouthnetwork@gmail.com

Burlington — War tax resisters and others join Bring Our War Dollars Home group for leafletting with pie charts and other literature, April 15, 11–1, Maple Street post office. More info: danielwoodham[at]yahoo.com.

Portland — War Resisters League, Portland chapter is organizing its annual “burma shave on the bridges” protest on Tuesday, April 15. We stand on the bridge sidewalks holding “burma shave” style signs for morning commuters with a message about military spending priorities and taxes paying for war. Meet in the Burger King parking lot (on SE MLK Jr. Blvd. near the Hawthorne Bridge) at 7:30 a.m. and break up into teams, one for each bridge. We will finish by 9 a.m. Please confirm with John Grueschow, (503) 287‒9891 if you are available to participate.

Pennsylvania

Bethlehem area — LEPOCO’s Annual Tax Day Leafleting at area post offices. Volunteers are needed to help hand out the War Resisters League’s “Where Your Tax Money Really Goes” pie chart. Using the ever relevant pie chart leafleters will greet tax payers at local post offices on the last day to file a tax return for 2013. Please call the LEPOCO Peace Center at (610) 691‒8730 to volunteer for an hour or two at a post office convenient to you or see www.lepoco.org.

Media — The Brandywine Peace Community along with the Peace Center of Delaware County will be doing a Noontime, Tuesday, April 15, demonstration, at the Media Post Office, Baltimore Pike & Monroe Street, in Media, Delaware County. The Tax Day demonstration will be just blocks from the site of Media FBI Break-in (March 8, 1971) and will include 20 foot long graph showing the obscene military spending priorities and large signs reading: Taxes for Need not War & Military Greed. Contact the Peace Community at (610) 544‒1818 or see the website.

Philadelphia — Brandywine Peace Community monthly potluck supper and program featuring a large-screen showing of the 30-minute NWTRCC film, Death & Taxes. Sunday, April 13, 4:30 p.m., University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street. The program will be followed by a discussion on war tax resistance. For more information call the Peace Community at (610) 544‒1818.

Texas

Austin — CodePink Austin is planning a “Human Penny Poll” in downtown Austin, at 2nd St. and City Hall, 4–6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15. We will dress in costume to represent different categories of federal spending (eg. a person in cap and gown for the Education category, a person dressed as a nurse for the Health Care category…) and we will each be carrying a penny poll jar or container. We will offer passers-by a stack of pennies to distribute between our containers according to their priorities. We plan to distribute pie chart fliers as well. We plan this action in conjunction with the Global Day of Action On Military Spending. For more info, (512) 467‒2946.

Vermont

Pioneer Valley War Tax Resisters and supporters (all welcome!) will gather in front of the Brattleboro Post Office between 10 a.m.–2 p.m. on Tax Day, April 15. While playing music and singing songs (especially in memory of Pete Seeger), we will be handing out WTR pie charts from our literature table. Contact Daniel Sicken by email or phone, (802) 387‒2798.

Seattle — Please join members of Greater Seattle Veterans For Peace on Tuesday, April 15, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., Midtown Post Office at 301 Union St. (at 3rd Ave.) in downtown Seattle, as we help raise public awareness about the militarization of the US federal budget and about nonviolent alternatives to passively paying for wars and weapons we don’t want. We will be distributing copies of the War Resisters League’s pie chart leaflet — “Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes” which analyzes the 2014 federal budget. Contact vfp@vfp92.org for more information.

Wisconsin

Milwaukee — Vigil to Protest Tax Monies used for Drones and the Military, Saturday, April 12; Noon to 1:00 p.m., US Army Reserve: 5130 W Silver Spring Dr., Milwaukee, Wisc.. Come and hold a sign. If you are interested in joining some of us in an act of civil disobedience, please call Casa Maria beforehand at (414) 344‒5745 and ask for Lincoln or Michael.

“If a thousand people were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood.”